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That can't be measured exactly. Travel is, in some crucial way, a subjective emotional experience. The delighted Dr. Johnson's carriage jounced along down urban corridors of dust or mud. But the rig was, for its time, a Rolls-Royce. Travel is literally a state of mind. When trains got started in the early 19th century, people thought that moving 20 m.p.h. might cause insanity. On the other hand, it is not speed but an enraging motionlessness--the stalled freeway, or the runway where you sit for an hour or two awaiting takeoff--that causes derangement today...
...That can't be measured exactly. Travel is, in some crucial way, a subjective emotional experience. The delighted Dr. Johnson's carriage jounced along down urban corridors of dust or mud. But the rig was, for its time, a Rolls-Royce. Travel is literally a state of mind. When trains got started in the early 19th century, people thought that moving 20 m.p.h. might cause insanity. On the other hand, it is not speed but an enraging motionlessness - the stalled freeway, or the runway where you sit for an hour or two awaiting takeoff - that causes derangement today...
...place time forgot. The train yards, the vintage Soviet equipment, the windswept platform and the concrete stationhouse slowly crumble to dust. The physical plant is a throwback. So too is the human element. There are interminable delays for border formalities, with uniformed troops surrounding the train and sealing it off, big shot officers with visored caps and polished boots tramping from compartment to compartment, demanding visas, passports, papers, documents. They are stamping, stamping, stamping with boots and rubber stamps. Then there is the waiting while the official party repeats this process in each and every compartment in each and every...
...touch his body. And the kids got something out of it. The people in this situation, you know, they aren't going to get that." That's why You're Missing is one song that does not end hopefully: "God's drifting in heaven, devil's in the mailbox/Got dust on my shoes, nothing but teardrops...
...ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, 52, well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific author, the most recent of Williams' books is Writing in the Dust: After September 11th. (Williams was two blocks away from the twin towers on Sept. 11.) He succeeds Dr. George Carey, who retires at the end of October after eleven and a half years as Archbishop...